{"id":11949,"date":"2010-01-25T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=11949"},"modified":"2010-01-24T23:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T06:05:48","slug":"las-cruces-council-to-discuss-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/01\/las-cruces-council-to-discuss-city-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Cruces council to discuss city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9541\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 325px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9541\" title=\"Las Cruces city hall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Las-Cruces-city-hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Las-Cruces-city-hall.jpg 325w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Las-Cruces-city-hall-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las Cruces City Hall (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/las-cruces.org\/council\/\">Las Cruces City Council<\/a> will meet in closed session today to discuss personnel issues involving City Manager <a href=\"http:\/\/las-cruces.org\/manager\/\">Terrence Moore<\/a>, including concerns that have recently been raised about his travel and an incident in which he had his administrative assistant babysit his kids.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes after Councilor Dolores Connor pushed fellow councilors to schedule a private session to discuss the issues.<\/p>\n<p>Moore has been under scrutiny lately for at least two issues that have been raised publicly. He recently reimbursed the city for some costs associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/01\/cruces-manager-reimburses-city-for-travel-costs\/\">two business trips<\/a> he took last year \u2014 after a complaint was filed over one trip and an attorney requested documentation about the other.<\/p>\n<p>And Moore had his administrative assistant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/01\/las-cruces-manager-had-city-staffer-babysit-kids\/\">babysit his children<\/a> on Dec. 21 \u2013 while she was on the clock and being paid with public money \u2013 so he could attend a city council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Connor first asked for the closed session in November \u2013 before the babysitting incident \u2013 but Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/las-cruces.org\/council\/mayor.shtm\">Ken Miyagishima<\/a> rejected her request, and the majority of councilors backed him up in refusing to schedule such a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Miyagishima suggested at the time that Connor meet with Moore individually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that this rises to the need for any type of a closed meeting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At last week\u2019s meeting, Connor raised the issue again, during council comment at the end of the meeting. At that point, the mayor and two other councilors were no longer present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am disappointed that I\u2019ve been ignored on this subject, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s something we can continue to ignore,\u201d Connor said at last week\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Pro Tem Sharon Thomas agreed, saying she was \u201calso concerned.\u201d The other councilors present, Miguel Silva and Olga Pedroza, also agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Moore is scheduled to have a regular evaluation in February, but Connor said that\u2019s not soon enough for the concerns she wants to discuss, and the other councilors present last week agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s meeting is at 4 p.m. in the council conference room at city hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Cruces City Council will meet in closed session today to discuss personnel issues involving City Manager Terrence Moore, including concerns that have recently been raised about his travel and an incident in which he had his administrative assistant babysit his kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-11949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-las-cruces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}